- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (25 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848563647
- ISBN-13: 978-1848563643
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 2.3 x 23.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 284,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This flexi-bound paperback collection (is) worthy for any fan of the movies or original books.' --- The Daily Express
'High on espionage, and Boys' Own-style global adventure but with grittier, more brutal villain... you ll be in 007 heaven.' --- Den of Geek
'Breathless action anticipates the films more fanciful flourishes.' --- Total Film
'High on espionage, and Boys' Own-style global adventure but with grittier, more brutal villain... you ll be in 007 heaven.' --- Den of Geek
'Breathless action anticipates the films more fanciful flourishes.' --- Total Film
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The daring James Bond is back in a definitive bumper edition collecting Ian Fleming's earliest literary adventures in comic strip form! For the first time, eleven of Bond's most thrilling and dangerous missions appear in a single volume: "Casino Royale", "Live and Let Die", "Moonraker", "Diamonds are Forever", "From Russia With Love", "Dr. No", "Goldfinger", "Risico", "From a View to a Kill", "For Your Eyes Only" and "Thunderball"! With an exclusive introduction by Sir Roger Moore, this huge volume features beautiful women, thrilling action, incredible gadgets and the odd Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred...this ultimate collection of Bond's best is not to be missed.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the real deal,
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This review is from: The James Bond Omnibus Vol.1 (Paperback)
Forget the films these comic strips are based on the novels and manage in a few pages to capture the plot and characters perfectly. the stories zip along. the action is raw, the women are beautiful, the villains are devilish and Bond is exactly as you would imagine him. Highly recommended
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hairy Faced Lunatic,
By The Incredible Suit (London, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The James Bond Omnibus Vol.1 (Paperback)
Books. Hate `em. Too many words.
Thank Alfred, then, for The James Bond Omnibus, a collection of comic strips that ran in the Daily Express between 1958 and 1962. This book, which is made of 100% recycled groovy, is the perfect thing for a dangerously obsessive Bond freak who's watched the films and read the novels so many times that he introduces himself with his surname first, then his first name and surname together, even if he has a name that doesn't sound remotely cool when spoken like that. Fortunately I don't know anyone quite that obsessive, and I certainly wouldn't be caught doing that myself, oh no. Anyway. Ian Fleming's original books were serialised in the Express in the days before it became the Daily Diana Conspiracy Theory, and if you'd been around then you would have been alternately entertained by the zippy plots and fantastic artwork (by John McLusky in this book; other artists such as the peerless Yaroslav Horak - surely a Bond villain name if ever there was one - would take over later), and frustrated by the fact that it took about four seconds to read and then you had to wait till tomorrow for the next four seconds. But the majesty of this book is that that frustration has been banished - banished, I say! - by squidging them all together into one continuous story. One thing I love about Fleming's novels is that Bond can often be found spouting the most ridiculous put-downs to the villains which even Roger Moore would have trouble saying out loud, and I'm pleased to see they're carried through to the comic strips. My current favourite, from 'Moonraker', is: "I think you're a lunatic, and a hairy faced lunatic at that". Furthermore, when they ran out of original stories, writer Jim Lawrence came up with a bucketload more, which I haven't read but am very excited about, despite them having Harry Potteresque titles like `The League Of Vampires', `When The Wizard Awakes' and `The Xanadu Connection'. And I shudder to think what `Doomcrack' is all about, but I look forward to finding out. So well done to Titan Books for parping out this beauty, keep `em coming and have a free plug on The Incredible Suit for your troubles.
4.0 out of 5 stars
BOND, STRIPPED DOWN AND BOUND UP,
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This review is from: The James Bond Omnibus Vol.1 (Paperback)
A high-quality, well-produced book, containing every Bond serialisation to have appeared in The Daily Express between 1958 and 1962. Drawn by the gifted JOHN McCLUSKY, I was initially a bit underwhelmed by the rather straightforward style, but I soon realised why: three-panel strips had to conform to the newspaper format - a format that still remains to this day. Duh. Following that, it didn't take long to become fully absorbed by some quite excellent adaptations of the original novels. In the first few pages of the opening story, CASINO ROYALE, the likeness of Bond to IAN FLEMING is quite striking, but then the style settles down and 007 becomes quite a craggy angular type, not exactly bland, just resembling no-one in particular. And even though the scale is considerably less than we've been used to seeing on the big screen for nearly 50 years, there are still many recognisable story set-pieces. Additionally, a fair amount of torture features throughout (although rendered with subtlety by McClusky) and this clearly reflects Fleming's rough and tumble take on Cold War espionage. The monochrome worlds of James Bond's broadsheet adventures are therefore certainly not without their quota of highly-charged excitement, which ensures everything moves along at a fast pace and the attention never flags. Each story's respective characters are vividly realised and, yes, all the early Bond racial stereotypes and female 'affectations' are present and (politically in)correct. To be fair, PC was very much a thing of the future in those days so to criticise it too harshly now is to miss the point somewhat. With that in mind then, it's not exactly difficult to see why the novels were snapped up by EON Productions soon after publication, and why the suave British Secret Service agent became such a worldwide success. These comic strips were yet another phase of the burgeoning 007 phenomenon, bringing it to an even wider audience. If you're prepared to go with the (ink)flow, THE JAMES BOND OMNIBUS Volume 1 is a ride well worth taking, perfect for the genuine fan who wants more than just celluloid thrills. And the same, not surprisingly, applies equally to Volume 002.Featuring: DR NO (check out the deadly centipede!); FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE; GOLDFINGER; THUNDERBALL; DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER; LIVE AND LET DIE; MOONRAKER; FOR YOUR EYES ONLY; FROM A VIEW TO A KILL; CASINO ROYALE and, er, RISICO(?) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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